Life — October 30, 1913 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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gorgeous in subdued gold, and the Booth severely simple and getting its novelty from architectural arrangement and detail. REAR RET PEK EK HE latest contribution that Sir James M. Barric has made to dramat literature is another ven- tire in the satirical school, of which Mr. Bernard Shaw.is the founder, and is called “ The Censor and the Dramatists". It is neither scream ingly funny nor powerfully satirical 1 makes one wonder just what kind of liberties the dramatist-knight is taking with his laurels. Its effect is not heightened by being sandwiched into a xirl-and-music show called “The Doll Girl”. The Barrie skit sets the tired business man to guessing what it is all about “THE LOVE LEASH” is rather a cryptic title which in the play that bears it is explained as referring to the bond in which a young husband is held by the overpowering affection of his bride and his mother. He thinks the domestic coddling cramps his chances for the frecdom of youth, A comedy attempted to he made out of the difficul- ties by an azecement to a“ trial divorce ” which is to last for a year and which neither of the partics to it really wants. The attempt would have been more suc cessful if the rather improbable solution had been treated simply instead of being loaded down with a lot of superfluons complications that wearied the andience and handicapped some real excellence’ of the piece in the comedy li Grace Filkins brought to the part of the young wife her personal charm and experience as a comedienne. If she could prevail upon her authors to count up the number of her entrances and exits it might provide some theory on which to ent the piece so that her efforts and those of an unusually good company would not be wasted. In its original confusion “The Love Leash” seems rather a hopeless proposition. RE RRORHAAGSDGD NCLE SAM seems to have gone into the theatrical advertising business. tle ought to be entitled to at least a fifty-fifty division of the inercased box viliee receipts of Marie Lloyd and Mrs. Metcalfe. Pankhurst. “RSE A Crying Need NVENTORS have recently succeeded in perfecting a device whereby a torpedo can be controlled by wireless telegraphy and brought back, if neces- sary, to its original starting point. This is an admirable invention, but it may not be of any practical benefit for many years, if at all. What Astor.— The Seven Keys to Raldpate.” rom in farce form with the answer until the very last. Has consider- le fun in it Belasco.—Mr. David Warfield in, “ The Auctioneer”. One of Mr. Warfield’s early Nehicles. slightly modernized, and both amus- ing and pathetic in its depiction of East Side wish life. Booth. The Great Adventure,” by Mr. Arnold bove Casino." Oht I Say!" Notice later. Century Opera _Howse.—Repertory of operas, mostly in English and at, popular prices.” This week Saint Saens's “Samson and Delilah”. Very creditable presentations ot the standard works. Cohan's.—" Potash and Perlmutter.” The juys and sorrows of the Jewish cloak-and: suit trade in laughable dramatic form. Comedy.—" Believe Me, Nanti Init_ amusing original American Cort.—" Peg o' My Heart.” Amusing light comedy with Miss Laurette Taylor cleverly demonstrating how an Irish-American girl _meets the difficulties of life among the Rritish nobility. ion.—Mr. John Mason in“ Indian by Mr. Augustus Thomas. Notice pe.” Slight Eltinge.—" Within the Law.” Melodrama department store tyranny and life in the world of crooks. Interesting and admirably acted. Empire.—Ethel Barrymore in“ Tante™, dramatized by Mr. Haddon Chambers. Notice later. Forty-fourth Street Music Hall. —Vauile- ville and spectacle on a big scale. Forty-cighth Street.—* To-lay." by Messra Kirea Ihurst_and Schomer. Crade drama with cljectionable features. aicty.—" Nearly Married." Slender but very diverting and well acted American farce Madam President", with Fan- nie Very laughable but naughty French farce of the Royal type. Globe.-—" The Doll Girt”, with Mr. Rich {Carle and Mattie Williams. Also, Barrie's and the Dramatists". See 743 we really want is that somebody should invent a trained golf ball which, when you press the button, will jump out of its hiding place and, giving a glad cry of relief, spring back into its joyful owner's hands. ODERN Church Service—A small body of women entirely sur- rounded by stained glass. © CONFIDENTIAL 5 oF GUIDE \ oer Harris.—* The Love Leash." See above. —" America.” The best the ne has yet done in the way of hig spectacle and ballet Hudson.—" The Fight." Expurgated edi- tion of a suffrage drama, notable principally from the fact that the authorities required its cleansing. Knicker r.—" The Marriage Market." London girl-and-music show with Mr. Donald Brian's dancing as its prir f Little. —" Prunella.” Notice later Longacre.—* Adele.” Pretty anit presented operetta in excellent taste. Lyceum.—" The Younger Gi ture. well: rati and Grace George in J. M. Marrie’s "Half an Hour”. Interest 8 well acted. Lyric. —" The Girl and the Pennant” by Rida Johnson Young Notice later Manhattan Opera He of Virtue.” An intere play with a pract ation of ‘the young pe done here lasts attention it deserved. Playhouse.—" The Family Cupbo: particularly “well constructed dr day, but with some amusing episodes. J Christy Mathewson. "t receive the Princess.—New dill of tive short plays A strongly varied menu running all the way from the grewsome to the cv Interest ing and pretty well d nde for Sunday-school classes “The Temperar ental J ig drama dealing w them The Great Adventure noticed above Marine 1 : Lure.” The first of the white slave plays disinfected by the poli into commonplace melodrama. Shubert —Forbes RK ertory. The last opportunities to observe the work most accomplished artist Thirty-ninth Street—" At Bay," by the author | © Lure". Ordinary melo: drama w murder for its subject Winter Garden The Passing Show of Glitter and. girls ec. all to the 's farewell rep: THE REAL DACHS AND THE CUBIST [DLA OF THE SAME